When will Northern Ireland next go to the polls? 🗳
Voters in Northern Ireland have avoided a return to the polls before Christmas.
The next local government elections could also be rescheduled due to a clash with King Charles III's coronation in May.Council elections in Northern Ireland take place every four years and the next one is currently scheduled for Thursday, 4 May 2023. He pointed to Section 84 of the Northern Ireland Act, the legislation underpinning Stormont's institutions after the Good Friday Agreement peace deal was reached in 1998.Lord Caine did not commit outright to maintaining the current 4 May date.
On Thursday, the Northern Ireland secretary also confirmed the government is "taking soundings" on whether to change the date of next year's council election. He said that decision would be made after he had spoken to all the political parties at Stormont about it.After Mr Heaton-Harris decided not to call a Stormont election before Christmas, he introduced legislation to delay the deadline for reforming a power-sharing government.
Would he at that point follow through on his legal duty to call a fresh election within 12 weeks, at the latest taking place on 13 April? The government could then opt to introduce legislation to push back further the deadline for restoring the executive, although this is an option it said it was not considering for now.If the executive is not restored and an assembly election is not further delayed, the government could choose to hold it and the local government elections on the same day.
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